Update #9: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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John Phan shows us Asians we can almost win another bracelet, but falls just a tad short finishing runner up to the BIGGEST SUCK OUT with pocket 4's against Phan's Pocket Aces on the river of the last hand. GOOD WORK John despite the bad luck. Event 19 - the No-Limit Hold'em, $2500 buy-in had 1013 players and John finished 2nd with a prize of $330k. [COMPLETE]

In Event 20 - Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB, $2000 buy-in, a 340 player field, Min Lee gets us back to back 2nd place finishings. He started off a huge underdog, but clawed his way into the final two and settled for a couple thousand under 100 gran. [COMPLETE]

In Event 21 - the No-Limit Hold'em Shootout, $1500 buy-in had 900 players enter. Brandon Lee walked away with a 6th place finish and $22k in his pocket playing the likes of Erick Lindgren, Daniel Negreanu and Thomas Fuller at the final table. [COMPLTE]

Event 22 - No-Limit Hold'em, $5000 buy-in had 640 players enter, but no Asians make the final table. Oh well... [IN PROGRESS]

Event 23 - Pot-Limit Omaha, $1500 buy-in had 576 entries. Still [IN PROGRESS]

Event 24 - World Championship Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB, $3000 buy-in had a small field of 236 players and 120 are still left. [IN PROGRESS]

Update #2: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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In the 327 player $2500 buy-in Omaha/Seven Card Stud/Low 8/OB event (Event #5), John Phan has made the final table. He's #7 out of 8 players. Again, it was an incredibly tough field to beat out...so making the final table was an accomplishment in itself and sharing the table with John are the infamous Annie Duke, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Chris Bell and David Benyamine. Scotty Nguyen finished in 10th place. [COMPLETE] Click here for details.

After a fast start, Brandon Wong is in 7th place currently in the 910 person deep Event #6 $1500 Limit Hold-em event. Just a few hours ago, he was in 2nd place, but taking his place, one position higher, Tommy Hang is in 1st place after the bubble burst and 90 players remained. Micheal Sun (#14 in chips) and David Chiu (#17 in chips) remain in the in the top players who survived. [IN PROGRESS]

In Event #7, $5000 with multiple rebuys buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha, John Juanda has taken a commanding lead with 310,000 chips with Johnny Chan moving down slightly down to #18 in chips. Rafi Amit is in 19th position. [IN PROGRESS]

Update #1: Asian Winners & Leaders in the 2007 38th Annual World Series of Poker

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Event 1 - World Championship $5000 buy-in Mixed Hold'em (Limit/No-Limit) 06/03/2007
10th place - Phuong Tran OF SAN GABRIEL, CA - out of 451 players raking in $22,257 [COMPLETE]

Event #2 was a $500 buy-in Casino Employees only tourney, but the limitation didn't limit Asians from shining. Eugene Lang took the highest placing for an Asian @ 3rd taking home $42k, Chris Chau immediately after in 4th earning him $28k and the next highest Asian Loc Hoang in 11th raking him $43-hundred bucks. [COMPLETE]

Edward Lee placed 19th in the 2998 player deep $1500 buy-in Event #3 No-Limit Holdem earning him $23,735 & the highest Asian to place. David Pham was in 6th place yesterday, but couldn't hold on and placed 64th only taking home $9412. Other notables: Sanjeer "Bobby" Bais in (33rd), Scott Ya (42nd), Long Nguyen (45th), Gevin Diep (57th), David Pham (64th), Benny Cho (67th), Nan Wang (68th), Richie Wong (77th), and Maria Ho (97th). [COMPLETE] Click here for more.

Event #4 was a 780 player $1500 Pot Limit Hold-em event where Asians could only reach the 22nd placing with Tommy Le busting out before the final table. Good work Tommy! [COMPLETE] Click here for more.

In the 327 player $2500 buy-in Omaha/Seven Card Stud/Low 8/OB event (Event #5), John Phan has a chance to take the title having 120,000 chips to his name with only 13 players left. Scotty Nguyen is also in the mix with a smaller stack of 35k chips. Tianxiong Fu also has a chance at 55k chips. John, Scotty, and Tianxiong will be going against very popular and well known players Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Chris Bell, Josh Arieh, David Benyamine and Annie Duke. Gary Do placed #14, a $9401 cash, Lua Tran #19 for a $7145 cash and Yueqi "Rich" Zu placed 27th. Tough, rough, tough field...included famous pros & veterans: Mickey Seagle, Cyndy Violette, Shahram "Shawn" Sheikhan, Robert Mizrachi, Greg Raymer, Andrew Black, Chau Giang, Hasan Habib, Jennifer Harman, Mike Matusow, "Miami" John Cernuto, Jason Strasser, Jeffrey Lisandro, Jeffrey Lisandro, Paul Darden Jr., Amir Vahedi, Can Kim Hua, Sam Grizzle, Alfredo "Toto" Leonidas, Brett Jungblut, ,Kathy Liebert,,Erick Lindgren, Barry Greenstein, Kristy Gazes, David Levi,John Juanda,,Andy Bloch, ,Men Nguyen,Daniel Negreanu,,Max Pescatori, Blair Rodman,Ted Forrest,,Layne Flack, Todd Brunson,Steve Zolotow, Doyle Brunson, Ted Lawson, David Chiu, Johnny Chan, David Sklansky, Phil Ivey, Perry Friedman, Alexandra "Alex" Vuong, James Van Alstyne, Dutch Boyd, and Joanne "J.J." Liu among many other great players. [COMPLETE] CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS.

In a fast start, Brandon Wong is in 2nd place currently in the 910 person deep Event #6 $1500 Limit Hold-em event. Tam "Tommy" Hang represents in a tie for 8th place. John Phan may be potentially playing two tournaments at the same time being in 25th place here as well. [IN PROGRESS]

Johnny Chan is the highest ranking Asian in Event #7, $5000 with multiple rebuys buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha, currently in 17th place in chips. [IN PROGRESS]

The series will be running until mid July (17th) climaxing to the Internationally reknown final $10,000 buy-in World Championship No-Limit Hold-em event televised on ESPN.